eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2007 | search, email, google, gmail, tips
Tips on using the very powerful GMail Search capabilities.
Quoted: It's no surprise that the killer feature in Google's email offering, Gmail, is its search capability. Google's king of the web because it makes information on its billions of pages findable; likewise, Gmail makes the megabytes of messages that get pumped into your inbox every day manageable...
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 07 2009 | google, search, yahoo, blogs
Interesting post on how sitemaps impact the crawlers from Google and Yahoo. It's pretty incredible how fast Google is...
Quoted: Like any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a client’s website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to think if this really helps the site out and what’s the effect when I submit a Sitemap on the site.
ShareViewed: 5 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 08 2008 | design, news, search, facebook, profiles
Details on the forthcoming Facebook profile changes.
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2007 | search, Google, funny
Another brilliant roasting from Fake Steve Jobs, this one in the form of a prayer by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
ShareViewed: 11 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2007 | writing, search, organization, journal, notetaking
Thomas Edison supposedly was an obsessive notetaker, with more than 5 million pages in his journal and archive. Amazing. Lifehack.org takes a high-level look at the system and outlines the main components.
I wonder how many pages of notes I have in Blue Dot?
ShareViewed: 35 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2007 | google, yahoo, microsoft, search, business, research
A somewhat simplistic study points to better click through rates on Yahoo than on Google.
Quoted: Yahoo Inc.'s search engine gets a higher percentage of users to click on the results of a query than market leader Google Inc.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 13 2007 | research, search, reference
Quoted: There's far more to great reference tools than Wikipedia, here's a guide to twenty great ones!
ShareViewed: 13 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2007 | google, business, search
Google is paying "Business Referral Representatives" to collect business meta-data which they can map to Google Maps. The referral payments can be quite high if you submit good and verifiable content. College students - here's a great way to earn some cash!
Quoted: Google wants to digitize local search information, and Tony Wright tells you how you can help.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 18 2007 | search, google, technology, Peter Norvig
Quoted: Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, is an expert ace at building machines that answer tough questions. An authority in programming languages and artificial intelligence, he has written an oft-cited book on AI (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach), has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California, and was the head of computational sciences at NASA. In 2001, Norvig came to Google to be the director of search quality. Four years later, he became Google's director of research, overseeing about 100 researchers who investigate topics that range from networking to machine translation. Technology Review spoke with Norvig to get a hint of what we can expect from search technology in the years to come.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2007 | tags, tagging, search
Visual description of tagging.
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Send Eric a friend request or a personal message instead.